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Date:      Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:18:30 -0400
From:      Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com>
To:        "Oles' Hnatkevych" <gnut@fc.kiev.ua>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ifconfig alias question
Message-ID:  <3B6026B6.1040904@magpage.com>
References:  <19379023508.20010726123531@fc.kiev.ua>

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Oles' Hnatkevych wrote:

> Hello freebsd-questions,
> 
> I've got
> 
> fxp1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet 212.26.129.65 netmask 0xfffffff0 broadcast 212.26.129.79
>         inet 212.26.129.73 netmask 0xfffffff0 broadcast 212.26.129.79
> 
> first one pings
> last one does not
> 
> seems like the problem is that they are on one subnet


there's the problem.  man ifconfig says...

  If the address is on the same subnet as the first network address
  for this interface, a netmask of 0xffffffff has to be specified.

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